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For several decades G. W. Bowersock has been one of our leading historians of the classical world. This volume collects seventeen of his essays, each illustrating how the classical past has captured the imagination of some of the greatest figures in modern historiography and literature. The essays here range across three centuries, the eighteenth to the twentieth, and are divided chronologically.
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A short history of the Renaissance in Europe
\"A Short History of the Renaissance is a new edition of The Renaissance in Europe previously published by Laurence King Press and McGraw Hill. Readers will learn not only about the Renaissance that unfolded in Europe between 1300 and 1700, but also about the problem of cultural renewal: why it happens; why its energies are momentous, and how it changes everything all around it. This illustrated overview is a social history of the Renaissance in Europe. There are over 100 colour images. Key terms are defined in the Introduction. There are 25 Focus questions that expand on a specific topic such as Florence, prostitutes, and women and love. The 22 Voices features offer students the opportunity to read primary sources. 18 miniboxes contain statistical information. The book included timelines, a glossary, and Suggested Readings.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Graeco-Roman antiquity and the idea of nationalism in the 19th century : case studies
This interdisciplinary volume explains the phenomenon of nationalism in nineteenth-century Europe through the prism of Graeco-Roman antiquity.Through a series of case studies covering a broad range of source material, it demonstrates the different purposes the heritage of the classical world was put to during a turbulent period in European.
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The edge of the Empire : a journey to Britannia : from the heart of Rome to Hadrian's Wall
\"AD 130. Rome is the dazzling heart of a vast empire and Hadrian its most complex and compelling ruler. Far-away Britannia is one of the Romans' most troublesome provinces: here the sun is seldom seen and \"the atmosphere in the country is always gloomy.\" What awaits the traveller to Britannia? How will you get there? What do you need to pack? What language will you speak? How does London compare to Rome? Are there any tourist attractions? And what dangers lurk behind Hadrian's new Wall? Combining an extensive range of Greek and Latin sources with a sound understanding of archaeology, Bronwen Riley describes a dramatic journey from Rome to Hadrian;s Wall at the empire's northwestern frontier. In this strikingly original history of Roman Britain, she evokes the smells, sounds, colors, and sensations of life in the second century.\"--Jacket flap.
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Renaissance? Perceptions of Continuity and Discontinuity in Europe, C. 1300- C. 1550
Building on recent revisionist trends, this book offers a refreshing new perspective on the Renaissance and presents an invaluable examination of continuities and discontinuities from Petrarch to Machiavelli, from Giotto to Dürer, and from Italy to Burgundy, Bohemia and beyond.
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Renaissance? Perceptions of Continuity and Discontinuity in Europe, c.1300- c.1550
By tradition the Renaissance is characterised as a period of change in the culture intellectual history of Europe. These essays approach the period from a radically different perspective, noting continuities from the cultural norms of the Middle Ages.
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The Etruscans in the Modern Imagination
The Etruscans, a revenant and unusual people, had an Italian
empire before the Greeks and Romans did. By the start of the
Christian era their wooden temples and writings had vanished, the
Romans and the early church had melted their bronze statues, and
the people had assimilated. After the last Etruscan augur served
the Romans as they fought back the Visigoths in 408 CE, the
civilization disappeared but for ruins, tombs, art, and vases. No
other lost culture disappeared as completely and then returned to
the same extent as the Etruscans. Indeed, no other ancient
Mediterranean people was as controversial both in its time and in
posterity. Though the Greeks and Romans tarred them as
superstitious and decadent, D.H. Lawrence praised their way of life
as offering an alternative to modernity. In The Etruscans in
the Modern Imagination Sam Solecki chronicles their unexpected
return to intellectual and cultural history, beginning with
eighteenth-century scholars, collectors, and archaeologists. The
resurrection of this vanished kingdom occurred with remarkable
vigour in philosophy, literature, music, history, mythology, and
the plastic arts. From Wedgwood to Picasso, Proust to Lawrence,
Emily Dickinson to Anne Carson, Solecki reads the disembodied
traces of Etruscan culture for what they tell us about cultural
knowledge and mindsets in different times and places, for the way
that ideas about the Etruscans can serve as a reflection or foil to
a particular cultural moment, and for the creative alchemy whereby
artists turn to the past for the raw materials of contemporary
creation. The Etruscans are a cultural curiosity because of their
disputed origin, unique language, and distinctive religion and
customs, but their destination is no less worthy of our curiosity.
The Etruscans in the Modern Imagination provides a
fascinating meditation on cultural transmission between ancient and
modern civilizations.
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Colonizer or Colonized
Colonizer or Colonizedintroduces two colonial stories into the heart of France's literary and cultural history. The first describes elite France's conflicted relationship to the Ancient World. As much as French intellectuals aligned themselves with the Greco-Romans as an \"us,\" they also resented the Ancients as an imperial \"them,\" haunted by the memory that both the Greeks and Romans had colonized their ancestors, the Gauls. This memory put the elite on the defensive-defending against the legacy of this colonized past and the fear that they were the barbarian other. The second story mirrored the first. Just as the Romans had colonized the Gauls, France would colonize the New World, becoming the \"New Rome\" by creating a \"New France.\" Borrowing the Roman strategy, the French Church and State developed an assimilationist stance towards the Amerindian \"barbarian.\" This policy provided a foundation for what would become the nation's most basic stance towards the other. However, this version of assimilation, unlike its subsequent ones, encouraged the colonized and the colonizer to engage in close forms of contact, such as mixed marriages and communities.
This book weaves these two different stories together in a triangulated dynamic. It asks the Ancients to step aside to include the New World other into a larger narrative in which elite France carved out their nation's emerging cultural identity in relation to both the New World and the Ancient World.
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Ambitious Antiquities, Famous Forebears
This monograph studies the constructions of 'impressive' historical descent manufactured to create 'national', regional, or local antiquities in early modern Europe (1500-1700), especially the Netherlands. This was a period characterised by important political changes and therefore by an increased need for legitimation; a need which was met using historical claims. Literature, scholarship, art and architecture were pivotal media that were used to furnish evidence of the impressively old lineage of states, regions or families. These claims related not only to Classical antiquity (in the generally-known sense) but also to other periods that were regarded as periods of antiquity, such as the chivalric age. The authors of this volume analyse these intriguing early modern constructions of appropriate \"antiquities\" and investigate the ways in which they were applied in political, intellectual and artistic contexts in Europe, especially in the Northern Low Countries. This book is a revised and augmented translation of Oudheid als ambitie: De zoektocht naar een passend verleden, 1400-1700 (Nijmegen: Vantilt, 2017).
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